The trip . . . well . . . the trip sucked, at least for the most part.
Problemo numero uno: school trip with least favorite teacher of all time. Yes I have graduated, but Lauren and I made it to nationals in a speaking competition that neither of us really wanted to attend so we had to. Anyway, long story short, we didn't practice and made 12th in the nation.
The hotel was nice though. Although the name was quite questionable: Gaylord Opryland Hotel. Felt like I was in a meet the parents rip off with trees everywhere. The entire hotel/resort is indoors. It has a big glass ceiling that makes you feel outside, plus it has tropical plants and trees everywhere. The ground floor is a giant garden.
I had sushi for the 2nd time. What I had was called a rainbow roll (the name fit with the hotel theme). Pretty good stuff. The other kind I've had is a California roll (is any one else seeing a pattern? that's really bad).
What really sucked about the trip though was that I never really even got to go to Nashville. We were all prisoners of Master Gaylord the entire time. We never left hotel grounds until we took the old guy dinner cruise (which was brought to us by [who else?] Gaylord Entertainment!). Food was okay. View=beautiful (skyline, water, etc.) Show was quite questionable but we made it fun. At the bar on the boat there was a Jack and Coke just sitting there waiting for the waiter to come by and pick it up. I decided to play waiter. But I failed because I ended up drinking it. Fletcher and I both left the booze at the house so we didn't have any for 6 days other than that.
I ate a whole lot. Shopped a whole lot. They have a huge mall (at least to me. I am from Arkansas.) I bought a few things. So did everyone else. Tried to get watch Super-Man on the I-MAX in 3-D which would have been awesome, but time didn't allow it. They had a really cool mini-golf place too. "Glow Golf" Black lights with the special paint blah blah blah, so yeh, my ADD was going crazy in there.
Blew a lot of money I probably shouldn't have. I still need a car. Actually worse right now. My mom's vehicle's air went out so we are all car-pooling and sharing and dropping each other off. It sucks. Especially when I put the gas money in the truck and then they end up driving it.
More bad news . . . due to last week's trip I got no paycheck. Boss is sick this week plus marital problems, etc. so probably no work this week either. That means no money coming in to help pay for a lap top or car or the new peavey amp I just bought, which sounds awesome. But I did get more time off which I like.
If you didn't notice, I'm starting to take some "impressionist-style" photos now. Yeah, basically that does mean moving the camera as you take the picture, but they really do look cool, especially with light *smears(?). They just don't turn out as well when you use a camera phone.
Later.
